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Originally Posted by ralphiedee
Hmm, alot to report back here. Original post was about getting images to be the same size dimensions as the epub file as exporting thru Calibre to a mobi gave me tiny images. So I did as suggested and coded each image as percentage inside Sigil and made the new Kindle previewer convert the epub to the mobi file and the images look fine. But then I decided to convert the epub to mobi in Calibre and it crushed the images back to where I was before.
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So...why the hell are you messing with Calibre, then? You have a working MOBI file, from the ePUB-->KP3-->MOBI process. So...what? Why even bother with the Calibre step? That makes NO sense.
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All of this is for a client of mine and having gotten so sidetracked I also realized that the file size was 127mb. Way too big to upload to KDP anyway.
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Well, the old 50MB size limit is no longer in existence, but, yeah, that's a file that will definitely end up in the 35% royalty bracket. Why in the name of God is it so huge? Or, do you mean that 127MB is the MOBI size--not the delivery size?
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Not gonna lose sleep over this as this book is 700 pages, but I learn something everyday.
R
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Well, 700 pages will be a big book, surely, but we've made a book with just under 900 images that was under 50mb. 127MB seems QUITE large, really.
@notjohn: your constant haranguing of people to "just use an ePUB" does
NOT solve the image issue, by any means. You're not addressing the problem by saying that. Anyone with images that are NOT the full-width of a screen, nor intended to be, really need to be addressed with a proper MOBI and media-queries. An ePUB will NOT work in that circumstance. I understand why you say it, but you are endeavoring to simplify something that at the moment, should not be simplified, not for professional results.
Hitch